The Return Of The Sole Heir

Chapter 5 The marriage proposal

Having no source of making money Richard decided to go to the place he once worked after being sacked by his boss's wife because he refused to have s*x with her. Maybe begging her will do so, he thought.

"So tell me, Richard, are you ready to be my pet and satisfy me to keep your job?" She raised her head at him, licked her lips, and blew him a kiss.

This made Richard's body cringe and goosebumps run down his skin. After being betrayed by Felicia Richard hates this gender with so much passion.

To him, he believes they can never be of help except if they need something from him.

"Please, just give me back my job and…"

"Get out!" Dorcas said coldly with no sympathy in her eyes.

"P…please…"

"Guards!" Dorcas screams and immediately about four boys rush in. "Take this thing out and beat him before throwing him away," Dorcas ordered.

Rina Winston stepped out of her luxurious limousine and surveyed the scene before her with a mixture of disgust and pity. A group of young men were gathered around a poor, disheveled man, jeering and taunting him mercilessly.

As Rina approached, the group turned their attention to her, sneering at her expensive clothes and haughty demeanor. But she was not intimidated. She had always been a woman of compassion, and she could not stand to see another human being treated with such cruelty.

She marched up to the group, her chin held high and demanded that they leave Richard alone. The young men laughed at her, but Rina Winston was not one to be trifled with. She pulled out her wallet and began to count out a large sum of money.

"Here," she said, handing the cash to the poor man. "Take this and get yourself a meal and a place to sleep tonight. And don't let anyone treat you like this again." Then she turns to those humiliating him and gives them some money to let him go.

Richard looked at her with tears in his eyes, overwhelmed by her kindness. "Thank you, ma'am," he said, his voice shaking with gratitude. "I don't know how to repay you."

Rina smiled and patted his arm gently. "There's no need to repay me," she said. "Just remember that you are a valuable and worthy human being, no matter what anyone else may say."

"How about we invite him to have a drink with us?" Ella, who has been silent while standing beside Rina speaks a word for the first time.

"What did you mean?" Rina turns to face her sister. The shock on her face and Richard's face is so visible.

Richard never expects a rich person like them to invite someone like him to drink, Judging by the kind of boundaries separating the poor and rich. And Rina was surprised because Ella whom she knew will never sit to have a drink with a poor man judging by her always pompous attitude.

But she let it slide with the belief that she only invited Richard because he was handsome even with an empty pocket.

Without waiting to let Rina and Richard come to a conclusion, Ella turned around and they made their way inside the clubhouse where they all sat and drink.

After having conversations with Richard judging by his high test and how he knows so many quality brands Rina becomes suspicious about him but she soon lets it slide after getting drunk.

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The scented body wash hits Richard on the nose, the fragrance makes him open his eyes slightly as he wonders where he is.

The last time he perceived such a beautiful smell was when he was still Richard Eric the only heir of the Big E dynasty. Living his life as Roger he has never perceived such a beautiful scent before.

Wait, am I back home? Richard thought to himself and quickly stood up from his bed but the moment he turned his head to the other side he was surprised to see a beautiful lady laying beside him.

Richard almost screamed his lungs out but he managed to hold himself. This was the woman that helped him yesterday so how come he is on the same bed with her?

Did they have a one-night stand?

"No." He shook his head since their clothes were still intact on their body.

Without waiting to remember what actually happened, Richard slowly stood up beside Rina and he picked up his wallet after giving her a last look and feeling grateful that she saved him last night Richard left the room hoping that they will never have to meet again.

Shortly later, when Rina woke up she sat on the bed trying to wrap her head around what actually happened. She never had any plans of sleeping in a hotel, all she wanted to do was drink and go back home since yesterday was the last night she would be spending with her sister.

"Ella…Ella." She called out with the belief that she had spent the night with her sister. She was about to go to the bathroom to check on her when she saw a piece of paper on the bed.

Rina open the paper and reads

We shared the same room last night but I don't think we did anything. We were only drunk.

"What!" Binaca almost screams her lungs out as her eyes water. Today is her wedding and something like this might cause a misunderstanding but she was a little bit relieved since they didn't have s*x just like he had said.

She was about to pick up her phone to dial her sister's number when suddenly her phone started ringing and Logan, her fiance, was calling.

"Hello…"

"You b*tch where are you?" His voice roared in the hair and at this point, Rina felt a sharp pain in her throat but she managed to speak.

"I…I..am…"

"Come on, I'm at the front of the hotel room you lodge with a guy on the night before our wedding."

"No!" The phone drops on Rina's hand in shock as she wonders how Logan was able to get the news so quickly.

Without even taking her bath she picked up her purse and ran out of the room.

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When Richard got home his landlord was already waiting for him outside so he paid him his money from what Rina gave to him.

After taking his shower and wanting to have a rest the ringing of his phone distracted him.

"Hello…"

"This is Rina, get dressed. We are getting married today. I will send my driver to come pick you up." A female voice echoed from the other end of the phone.

"I think you are mistaken this is…"

"Roger." She cut him off. "I know your name so get dressed and prepare to be my fake husband. I will pay you handsomely."

Before Richard could even say a word she cut the call off but the way she sounded like she had been crying touched Richard's heart.

Richard heard the horn of the car and when he looked through the window a black-tinted Mercedes Benz was waiting outside the building for him.

Without wasting much time Richard walked out of his small room into the car. First, he needed to survive before achieving his plan and getting a better job.

Since she will pay him handsomely he will get married to her but Richard never knew that life will be like hell living as a poor in-law to the Winston family who wanted their daughter to marry a rich man.

He thought getting married to the daughter of the great Winston family will make him achieve his goal; he never knew that the family was against having a poor son-in-law like him.

Stopping at the front of the biggest building in Twilight City Richard took in a deep breath trying to gather all his self-confidence to save the first person that was good to him ever since he became poor.

Just when he was about to press the doorbell, the door sprang open and a woman dressed in a wedding gown was standing right before him.

"Oh, you came. I heard my sister's conversation with you, please come in." Ella ushered him in with a bright smile and pleasant music welcomed him the moment he stepped inside.

"Mother, here is Rina's husband-to-be." Ella holds Richard's hand and she presents him in the midst of the rich people who are well dressed and Richard looks like a laughing stock and humiliation compared to what they are wearing.

Mrs. Beatrice sneered as she traced her eyes from Richard's face down to his shoe trying to know his worth.

"He is worth nothing." She said among the crowd whose attention is now on Richard. Seeing how the crowd mock him Richard wishes he can show it to their face that he is worth more than everyone here being the only heir of the Big E dynasty but it took all his self-tolerance to stand the humiliation.

"He stings." She said again covering her nose and the crowd burst into another hectic laughter that lasted longer than the first one.

"And…"

"Enough!" A voice said from the long hallway and when everyone created a path Rina was standing among the crowd with blazing eyes and swollen face. She looked like someone who had spent the whole day crying.

Seeing how beautiful she looks and how she had saved him yesterday and defended him Richard's heart topples over for her in affection and he wishes he can take her away and make her happy.

"Oh, look who is here." Mrs. Beatrice said with an evil smirk while Rina walked closer to her.

"Shall we proceed with the wedding instead of disgracing him?" She whispers to her mother.

Mrs. Beatrice laughed then she faced the crowd and then back to her daughter "Judging by his tartare dress I guess you must have picked him up from the gutter.

"Mother!"

"Am I not right, Rina?" She signs and leans closer then whispers "You are a disgrace to the Winston family just like your crazy mother."

Then she stands straight and turns to face Richard "What kind of a job are you doing?"

Rina's heart raced faster than expected on hearing her mother's question. She will be treated like trash and might be cut off from the Winston family if they should find out about the kind of job Richard is doing, that will be her downfall.

"He's the office manager of a company in…"

"I once worked as a barman but now I have no job, ma'am."

Mrs. Beatrice's eyes twitch as she stares blankly at him then she shifts her eyes to her stepdaughter for bringing disappointment into their family the crowd was not left out as they gasp and murmured among themselves as if Rina just committed a grievous sin.

Well, in the history of the Winston family, she is the first person to marry a poor man even though she was the prettiest.